Book description
Diversity initiatives are falling short. This book shows leaders how to develop the skills needed to build sustainably inclusive organizations using a tested, research-based model developed by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry.According to the journal Human Resource Management, companies are spending over $8 billion a year on diversity programs. Yet today, the senior leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies are far from mirroring the diversity of its workforce and its customers. Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.
In this book, Tapia and Polonskaia draw on Korn Ferry's massive database of 3 million leadership assessments to reveal the essential qualities of inclusive leaders. They discuss the personality traits these leaders share and detail how to develop what they call the five disciplines of inclusive leadership: building interpersonal trust, integrating diverse perspectives, optimizing talent, applying an adaptive mindset, and achieving transformation.
Tapia and Polonskaia also outline the competencies behind each discipline, describe individual and organizational exemplars of inclusive leadership, and show how the five disciplines enable leaders to unleash the power of all people and to build both structurally and behaviorally inclusive organizations. This book will help leaders foster the skills to deal with today's complex challenges and create a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future for all of us.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Defining the Inclusive Leader
- The Core of Inclusive Leadership: The Enabling Traits
- PART 1. THE FIVE DISCIPLINES
- PART 2. THE EXEMPLARS
- PART 3. TACKLING THE MEGA DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CHALLENGES
- Conclusion. Creating Inclusive Organizations—Who Has the Last Word?
- Appendix A. Bonus Tracks: Spotlight on the Enabling Traits and Structural Inclusion
- Appendix B. Research Methods behind Korn Ferry’s Inclusive Leader Model
- Appendix C. Resources
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors
- About Korn Ferry
Product information
- Title: The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2020
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781523088225
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